LEARN/CREATE (PT)

NOTE: When the Idaho Legislature is in session, programming on the Learn/Create and World channels may be pre-empted for live coverage from the House and Senate floors.

2:00 pm

Artifacts & Fiction: Workshop In American Literature"Workshop 3. Social History"
The discipline of social history focuses on the lives of ordinary people. Diaries, photos, music, and clothing all contain clues to these personal histories. This session illustrates how literature can be more fully understood when paired with social history artifacts that reflect the cultural norms of the time. D

3:00 pm

Learning Math: Patterns, Functions & Algebra"Algebraic Structure"
Take a closer look at "algebraic structure" by examining the properties and processes of functions. Explore important concepts in the study of algebraic structure, discover new algebraic structures, and solve equations in these new structures.G

3:30 pm

Learning Math: Patterns, Functions & Algebra"Algebraic Thinking"
Begin to explore what it means to think algebraically and learn to use algebraic thinking skills to make sense of different situations. This session covers describing situations through pictures, charts, graphs, and words; interpreting and drawing conclusions from graphs; and creating graphs to match written descriptions of real-life situations.G

4:00 pm

Hands On Crafts for Kids"Patterns"
Patterns are a design, motif or decoration, formed from regular repeated elements. They can also be naturally-occurring or a random arrangement of shapes, colors which have a regular or decorative effect. Patterns can be stripes, or lines, or alternating colors. D

4:30 pm

Signing Time!"My House"
Alex, Leah, Hopkins and Rachel take a singing and signing tour of the rooms and objects in a house. D

5:00 pm

Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way"Citrus Thrill"
Jacques fires up the kitchen with skirt steak grandma, which is accented with freshly squeezed lime in anchovy and garlic sauce.G

Chef's Life"The Buttermilk Belt"
Vivian and Ben go to Maple View Dairy to pick up product for the restaurant. They talk buttermilk with the dairy's manager, and the noise Ben makes while savoring his cup of the thick liquid annoys his wife. The couple attempts to shoot the twins' Christmas card picture in the family's swimming-pool-turned-turnip patch, while Vivian's nieces and nephews desperately try to make buttermilk with their great-grandmother's butter churn. D

7:00 pm

Ask This Old House"Waffle Gardening In Santa Fe/Adding Mechanical Dampers to a Forced-Air Heating System"
Roger visits Santa Fe to learn about "waffle gardening," a method of growing vegetables in an arid climate. Richard adds mechanical dampers to a forced-air heating system. Tom shows how to bisect angles. D

Theater Talk"Happy Birthday, Ethel Merman"
We discuss the career of Broadway's all-time greatest star Ethel Merman with Tony Cointreau and James Russo. The close personal friends of the late diva, now archivists of her estate, share stories and keepsakes of the incomparable star. D

11:30 pm

Closer to Truth"Does The Brain Abolish Free Will?"
Who's the boss, me or my brain? Data from the brain, by itself, does not favor free will. But is there more to me than my brain? How to judge among the vast and competing claims about free will?. D